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Re: prefix/lib and prefix/include


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: prefix/lib and prefix/include
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:33:06 -0400

On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 08:49 +0330, ali hagigat wrote:
> I have a question about 4.4.6, Directory Search for Link Libraries, it
> talks about 'prefix /lib’, i think prefix, depends on the path that
> make has been installed on. Does make use an environment variable to
> specify prefix?
> Can i set prefix myself?

The prefix referred to in this section is a hardcoded value set at
configure time (of GNU make) and cannot be changed except by
reconfiguring/recompiling GNU make.  There is no environment variable or
make variable that controls it.

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